[I was two years into a three year part-time MA in Open and Distance Education when I wrote this in 2012]. Had this been the title of a post-graduate diploma in e–learning it would have been precisely what I was looking for a decade ago – the application of theory, based on research and case … Continue reading How people learn and the implications for design
Category: Learning Theories
Language, Communication, Education and John Seely Brown
The meaning of words and learning, from how we learn to speak via Hitchings, John Seely Brown and the Open University MAODE module H800. I like that thought that ‘All knowledge is, we believe, like language’. Whether we are educators or not, we all have experience of acquiring or possibly learning a language. I was brought up in the North … Continue reading Language, Communication, Education and John Seely Brown
John Seely Brown on participation through tinkering
[I wrote this in February 2011 a year into the MA in Open and Distant Education. I have a lot of respect from John Seely Brown. His ideas make so much sense, yet they are not practiced in education]. I agree with John Seely Brown’s emphasis, however, how should the degree of and the value … Continue reading John Seely Brown on participation through tinkering
